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I Find This Disturbing
no graphic pictures, i was listening to this on the news and couldn't believe what i was hearing.
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Yes it is disturbing. Why would any sane person do things like that?
10:06 Sun 28th Jul 2013
this is what i am referring to. Why do people behave like this.
It follows a deluge of abuse and rape threats received by Caroline Criado-Perez, who successfully campaigned for women to be included on UK banknotes.
Ms Criado-Perez, who had appeared in the media to campaign for women to feature on banknotes, said the abusive tweets began the day it was announced that author Jane Austen would appear on the newly designed £10 note.
It follows a deluge of abuse and rape threats received by Caroline Criado-Perez, who successfully campaigned for women to be included on UK banknotes.
Ms Criado-Perez, who had appeared in the media to campaign for women to feature on banknotes, said the abusive tweets began the day it was announced that author Jane Austen would appear on the newly designed £10 note.
I sure the suffragettes got many a poison pen letter, and this really is no different. That did not mean the Royal Mail had to stop or had to check everyones mail for nastiness before they delivered it.
People who use Facebook, Twitter etc do so at their own risk. These services are very good, but they are public, so it is possible (usually unlikely) that they will attract a cranks interest.
I am not defending the horrible tweets or tweeter. I just think that people who want to ban or censor or control internet services are missing the the real culprits.
People who use Facebook, Twitter etc do so at their own risk. These services are very good, but they are public, so it is possible (usually unlikely) that they will attract a cranks interest.
I am not defending the horrible tweets or tweeter. I just think that people who want to ban or censor or control internet services are missing the the real culprits.
Emily Davison (the suffragette who jumped under the King's racehorse)...
// In the papers, sympathy for Emily was in short supply. The Times called her ‘demented’, the London Evening Standard denounced her as ‘entirely unbalanced’, and the Daily Mail labelled her ‘a notorious militant with a thirst for martyrdom’. There was an immediate flood of poison-pen letters from the public. //
As she lay dying in hospital, the general public wrote her nasty letters.
// In the papers, sympathy for Emily was in short supply. The Times called her ‘demented’, the London Evening Standard denounced her as ‘entirely unbalanced’, and the Daily Mail labelled her ‘a notorious militant with a thirst for martyrdom’. There was an immediate flood of poison-pen letters from the public. //
As she lay dying in hospital, the general public wrote her nasty letters.
according to a recent documentary she wasn't even liked by the suffragette movement, a rogue element i think she was called. This by the way is 2013, haven't we moved on a bit since those sexist days. Had you received a threatening text, dependant on the nature of the wording, wouldn't you report it to the police, i know i would and have.
Re Wilding Davison, I have a telegram expressing sympathy for the victim of this tragedy. It talks of the these mad women! It was sent to Jones, the jockey, by the Queen! He was riding Anmer, her husband's colt, when it was brought down. Not a word of sympathy for the woman's family, but plenty for him.
You'll always get people like this, though. It's not just Twitter, or Facebook either. Dare I mention the 'other side', where death threats and rape were both common subjects and threats. That's just how some people, ok unhinged people, behave.
I doubt very much a report button would make a huge difference to the keyboard warriors.
I doubt very much a report button would make a huge difference to the keyboard warriors.
